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War and Peace

AuthorLeo Tolstoy

NarratorBill Nighy

Duration8h

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Classics

Key StageA Level

PublisherPenguin

VersionAbridged

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Tolstoy's epic story of a Russian family torn apart and rejuvenated by love and war. The war in question is Napoleon's Russian campaign in the early 19th century, which provides the background to the personal and public lives of Tolstoy's characters.

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